Novel "Across the Barricades" by Joan Lingard

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Joan Lingard's tale of Kevin and Sadie explores the reality of a Catholic-Protestant relationship during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, with parallels to the family/child relationships and forbidden love of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. A widely-read and widely-studied Lower Secondary / Middle School modern classic.

Novel "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

George Orwell's seminal short novel is one of those works that every Middle School or Lower Secondary student must read. Discover how Orwell uses animals to explore the meeting of a dream of a perfect world and the reality of human desire, the revolutionary cycle and one revolution in particlar, and human nature, with lessons for us all.

June 2026

The events below are open-group sessions from our Philosophy & Practice (methodology), Advanced Use of English and/or Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private support. Click on the event title(s) below for more information. 

May 2026

The events below are open-group sessions from our Philosophy & Practice (methodology), Advanced Use of English and/or Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private support. Click on the event title(s) below for more information. 

Advanced Vocabulary - going to the dentist

Much English vocabulary is really just general knowledge related to things studied in school, things Chilean students know but which they studied in Spanish, or that you have grown up with, and this leads to large vocabulary gaps which can persist into advanced levels. 

Poetry "The Man from Snowy River" by Banjo Paterson

Another in our Narrative Poetry series for Middle School and bilingual programmes, this Aussie classic spawned two movies, a TV show and who knows how many energetic and animated school performances. A must do.

Poetry "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W Service

A Canadian classic, ideal for inclusion in a Narrtive Poetry unit and as an introduction to ballads and the ballad form, this text raises provocative and interesting questions for students to consider. One man's gold? A fish out of water? Gothic humour? Join as we review these and other topics, teaching methodologies, literary approaches or just a good yarn.

April 2026

The events below are open-group sessions from our Philosophy & Practice (methodology), Advanced Use of English and/or Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private support. Click on the event title(s) below for more information. 

Learning to Read and Reading to Learn

Learning to read and reading to learn are not the same thing, but they are not unrelated either. EFL / Chilean national curriculum teachers have additional considerations; bilingual and E2l (ESL) teachers are different again.

March 2026

The events below are open-group sessions from our Philosophy & Practice (methodology), Advanced Use of English and/or Professional Conversation programmes; contact us to ask about scheduling open on-demand or closed private support. Click on the event title(s) below for more information.